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Funny what a little bit of Holocaust denialism will get you trending with.

Also, worth noting that calling it "Holocaust denialism," as Aye and Alejandra Carabello (and myself) have, is not hyperbole.

JK Rowling is denying that trans people were targetted by the Nazis, and promoting the tweets of known anti-trans activists screeching that any insistence that we were is "the LGBTQ+ lobby" revising history. That is, by a 2022 ruling on a case regarding similar tweets by the Regional Court of Cologne, (translation) "a denial of Nazi crimes."

She is, by German court precedent, quite literally engaging in an element of Holocaust denial.

bread-and-roses-too

In case anyone is unfamiliar with the Nazis' destruction of both gay and trans culture in Germany, Germany had a sympathetic gay and trans health clinic in the early 1900s. The Nazis destroyed it and burned literature studying homosexuality, gender noncomformity, and what we now understand to be transgenderness or transexuality. This took place only 3 months after Hitler came into power.

In addition to homosexuality, crossdressing was illegal under the Hitler regime even though trans people had (albeit limited) rights prior to his rise to power. And before anyone says it, the trans holocaust victims we talk about weren't misidentified crossdressers, drag artists, or gender-nonconforming people. One trans woman, Liddy Barcroff, died in a concentration camp for her "crossdressing" after telling arresting police “my sense of my sex is fully and completely that of a woman.” The queer community, all of us, suffered huge losses both in individuals and in education and understanding during the Holocaust. Denying any part of that is offensive and dangerous.

The Institute for Sexual Research, founded in 1919, pioneered modern gender-affirming health care. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with medical his

On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was

Last year, a German court acknowledged the possibility that trans people were persecuted by the Nazis

shofarsogood

It's also important to add that the founder of that institute was Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who was a gay Jew. This allowed Nazis to claim that Jews were promoting homosexuality to "destroy the family" and weaken the white race.

You know, pretty much exactly what Republicans are saying now, just in dogwhistles.

thebibliosphere

I got sucked into a TikTok anti-aging rabbit hole after my fyp inexplicably rec'd me a video listing the "top 5 things that are aging your skin." Those five things were:

-eating with your facial muscles -drinking with your facial muscles -sleeping on your side/front -using your facial muscles to talk -being outside

So basically, just being alive???

Anyway, I spent 20 minutes of my life in an ADHD trance watching all the things they recommend to stop the aging process, and now I'm fighting the urge to slather myself in Crisco and go stand in the sun for several hours out of spite while using my facial muscles to emote heavily and consume life-sustaining substances.

stonegolem

I completely understand this urge and normally would encourage anyone to do anything to spite tiktok quackery but in this case I would recommend you slather yourself in SUNSCREEN because though aging is beautiful and natural, skin cancer is not your friend

thebibliosphere

I hate that it needs to be spelled out (I get it, people are doing bonkers things like *gestures at anti-aging TikTok*), but my threat to incinerate my skin with Crisco out of spite is hyperbolic.

I might be fatally allergic to sunscreen (this is not hyperbole, it gives me anaphylaxis), but you'll never find my goth ass outside without a giant sun hat, UV-rated parasol, and SPF clothing.

The rest of you wear fucking sunscreen. Unless you're allergic. Then get a hat. A big one. And some SPF clothing. It works better than you'd think.

sliceoftheskye

Help me with some Post Stream Admin.

Hi folks. Thanks for everyone who came out to the stream this past weekend. We had a lot of great moments and really appreciated everyones support. We raised half a grand for Mermaids which was great - however we have run into a snag. One of our giveaway winners "Olivecow9056" didnt leave any contact info so we're trying to find them. If anyone knows them, or they see this please send me a DM on here!

theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt

Photosensitivity warning for Good Omens season 2.

I can’t believe we have to keep doing this over and over again but in season 2 episode 1 of good omens there is a long scene (upwards of ten seconds, which to me is long for an extremely dangerous epilepsy trigger) of very bright white and red flashing lights. It’s the entire screen. Unfortunately for me I was already watching this with a migraine coming on and I’m immediately in agony. There was no warning whatsoever before this happened. It’s at almost the very end of the episode. Please reblog to save someone a migraine or seizure.

stellasapphire

It’s from 42:41-43:14. There’s also an alarm going off at the same time, in case anyone reading this is sensitive to those sorts of sounds. Slight spoilers below the cut:

Crowley jumps on a chair at 42:26 and the flashing begins right after he jumps off and says “No one would have noticed a thing.” And it ends when Uriel says “Can you turn off the alarm please?”

maximumsunshine

Can this poll end on exactly 69,420 votes. Not notes, votes.

Of course

Yes

Maybe?

Hahaha funny number but no

Max you've been here 10+ years you know better

Vanilla Extract will equally help and hurt

Button

Another Button

Jesus with the buttons Max

Voting ended onJul 31, 2023

Unfortunately, this will require reblogs.

one-time-i-dreamt

Fast fashion retailer has faced many accusations of copyright infringement from independent designers

olderthannetfic

But it does.

olderthannetfic

It does… one at a time. It’d be useful to be able to select more than one. G&T but not higher, M&E only, everything but E for those who just don’t like smut. (btw I just checked and there is none of the exclusion filters showing on the search page at least in my computer)

AO3 does ‘and’ filters.

You don’t filter for M&E. You filter for not the other stuff.

izhunny

I have never seen so many users clearly baffled by and too skittish to push buttons/toggles that are very clearly meant to be used.

If a trusted website has a button and you don’t immediately know or understand what it does, push it. Check out every drop down, every link, every configuration imaginable. Be adventurous. Fuck around and find out. If it breaks the website, they shouldn’t have had that button in the first place. Not on you. Indulge your curiosity instead of complaining it doesn’t do something it absolutely does if you poke around a little.

You’re not going to get a bad grade in filtering by using interface features from AO3, I promise.

mercurialkitty

Look, there are library systems that don’t have filters as good as AO3. You have to learn how to use Boolean operators (AND OR NOT) and construct a proper query to exclude in several academic databases, and AO3 just performs “NOT” for you by clicking a button.

Do you know how many grad students would love to have the kind of power you have with AO3 in filters?

flameraven

Ao3 filters are amazing. You can filter out ratings, you can filter out characters or pairings, you can filter out specific tags (as long as it’s an official tag)! (Type it in under “other tags to exclude”)

This is why the antis complaining about seeing content they don’t like on Ao3 is so frustrating. If something squicks you out, filter it, and you never have to see it again! Voila! Or even if it is just something you don’t like. I have High School AUs filtered out because I just don’t like them! It’s an amazing system and makes it so easy to curate your experience.

taibhsearachd

...ngl, the fact that ADD and ADHD got condensed into ADHD when the hyperactivity specifically is part of the reason so many girls were simply not diagnosed drives me up the wall.

It's not that the whole name isn't bullshit, because it is. It describes the way people outside of our experience perceive us, as opposed to the difficulties that are part of our lived experience. Even from an outside standpoint, it's recognizable that "deficit" is not always the issue with our attention... but that's beside the point.

When psychiatrists noticed that ADD and ADHD were basically the same thing... they chose to favor the typical male presentation in the literal naming of the condition, and in doing so condemned a generation of girls (and other afab people) to suffer through being told they're so smart, they just don't apply themselves enough, that it's a personal failing they can't regularly turn in homework, that they're lazy for waiting until the last minute to work on an assignment... because those girls weren't hyperactive. Those girls just kind of drifted off and daydreamed in classes. Those girls doodled or wrote stories all through their school years, and functioned measurably worse when a teacher noticed they were doing that and tried to stop them. Those girls are now so many of my adult friends who are now being diagnosed with ADHD as adults, because the hyperactive part of the diagnosis almost solely applies to children (CHILDREN, when, I might note, this is a lifelong condition) who are socialized male.

We need a whole other name for the condition, because attention deficit is not our problem at all. But my god, the hyperactivity part actually ruined my life for so many years, because I had no way to explain to my dad why it physically hurt me to be bored, why I had to read or write or doodle in class in order to keep my focus, why I excelled in tests but failed at homework so my grades sucked because of that. No one even considered I might have ADHD, all through my childhood, but earlier this year I had the opportunity to go through all my grade school reports, and they could not be MORE CLEARLY talking about a child with ADHD. "Pleasure to have in class", "assignments not complete", "does not pay attention in class", "Birdie is a highly intelligent child with specific and unique needs" (I would LOVE more follow-up on that one, from third grade, do not have it). But I was a quiet and reserved child, so obviously I couldn't have ADHD.

I'm legitimately angry about it in retrospect. I went off my Adderall for a couple months recently, as an adult who only started taking Adderall as an adult, and it completely fucked up my ability to function. For years I was just out there as a teenager struggling through high school and college entirely unmedicated because as a child I was too withdrawn to be diagnosed. Fucking wild and also infuriating.

that-dumbass-rabbit

"suffer through being told they're so smart, they just don't apply themselves enough, that it's a personal failing they can't regularly turn in homework, that they're lazy for waiting until the last minute to work on an assignment... because those girls weren't hyperactive. Those girls just kind of drifted off and daydreamed in classes. Those girls doodled or wrote stories all through their school years, and functioned measurably worse when a teacher noticed they were doing that and tried to stop them"

"it physically hurt me to be bored, why I had to read or write or doodle in class in order to keep my focus, why I excelled in tests but failed at homework"

Wait is this not normal...I thought everyone related to this...I'm gonna go question everything in the corner see y'all later

taibhsearachd

Yeah friend, that's apparently not normal (I also had to figure this out, so trust I am not judging you) and is in fact a classic presentation of someone with ADHD who was socialized as a girl (I don't know if you personally were, there are obviously variations, but "boy ADHD" - aka the loud disruptive kind - tends to be diagnosed more and faster than "girl ADHD" - the quiet dissociative daydreaming kind-, whatever your actual gender and presentation.) You should maybe talk to your doctor. (Note: it's real hard to get meds right now, I'm still fighting with my pharmacy every fucking month for weeks at a time, but a diagnosis and knowing what you're dealing with can still help even if you can't get medication.)

tmntluvr1408

my guy (i know you’re actually a girl, i am too, i just tend to call everyone “my guy” i mean no offense) this is my whole life and childhood; being told i was just being lazy and not truly doing the work, just goofing off during class by doodling or writing stories about my favorite super heroes accused of procrastinating so i was forced by the guidance counselor principal and my mom on THEIR recommendation to follow a boring-ass ridgid schedule in order to learn structure and responsibility Forced to take prescription level speed on two different strengths; the one given a sa kid, and a stronger dose when doctors though i was getting worse, and could possibly, direct quote from my old medical records “Borderline retarded” (like how does someone “borderline retarded” as any kind of a mental diagnosis??) My dad and his now ex-wife, used to be my stepmother even forced me to see a psychiatrist after my mom died as they think it was this previous diagnosis that was putting me through depression and wanted to know how to ‘deal’ with it. according to the Pysch though, I wasn’t any of those things, not even ADHD/ADD he had me see a physician prior to one of my sessions and sahd pysician took the usual, blood and swab samples, did a general physical, bla bla bla. test results came back saying what ‘appeared’ to be ADHD/ADD was a vitamin deficiency on the B, D and A list, as well as Omega-3s However said Psych mentioned i’m also on the high-functioning spectrum for autism, it’s fancy for saying i could be passable as “Sociably normal” if not for a few quirks, like being overly emotional while also citing my hyper-creativity was another sign of this, making my own jewelery, wanting to learn how everything works, absorbing information i find fascinating as opposed to what is being force-fed to me “just because”

Any of these ringing a bell??

ruffboi-mags

....my dude what the fuck does this mean. Are you trying to say vitamin deficiency can mask itself as ADHD even when medication works? BC if you are, I'm here to say you're full of shit.

thebibliosphere

Not to rehash my almost dying from malnutrition trauma on main, but hi! I'm the bitch who almost died a few years ago from malnutrition due to health complications. I'm also the bitch that got diagnosed with ADHD at the same time.

And do you know what? Vitamin deficiencies can make ADHD symptoms worse because anything that affects neurologic function makes everything worse.

My b12 deficiency was so bad I was developing dementia symptoms for several months before I started experiencing organ failure. Fun times.

Anyway. After I got better and stopped actively dying, my ADHD therapist was like, "Hey, we should probably test you again to see if there's any difference because, y'know..."

So we redid all the ADHD testing, and do you want to know something fucking funny?

My ADHD got worse.

It got better, but it also got worse because suddenly, I had more energy to be hyper. I was less inattentive because my brain was no longer turning to soup, but I was also mentally zipping around like a loony toons cartoon. I'd never had so much mental energy. I didn't know what to do with it. I still don't know what to do with it because I have ADHD, and my brain doesn't hold onto dopamine properly, and sadly, due to the aforementioned health complications, I can't take the prescription "speed," as you so derogatorily called it, because my heart might explode. I want to. I want to very much take the thing in the hopes that it helps my brain slow down and focus, but alas, you work with what you've got.

So yes, I can attest that vitamins do impact neurological function, especially if you've been deficient for a very long time. They do not, however, change your fucking neurotype, which is what ADHD is.

Jesus Christ.

thedreamthieves

283,000 likes………giant meteor strike the earth rn holy shit. oh my god.

insomniac-arrest

"maybe it's not your pussy" is such a funny phrase and also correct. People wonder why chores are so hard and it's like, friends we used to have a whole intergenerational team on this and now Grandma is locked in a beige box. Cooking is hard.

thebibliosphere

"My hormones and general health improved once I stopped being overworked." No fucking shit, Sherlock.

lillyofthewoods

Love that they put “a sense of impending doom” as one of the symptoms of a heart attack, like girl, that’s just how it is to be alive these days, you’re gonna have to be more specific

undeadhousewife

This made me chuckle but after scrolling away I felt the need to come back to it.

Because as someone who has felt this I can not stress how different it actually is from anxiety. Which is saying a lot because I have a massive anxiety disorder.

I've only felt this twice in my life - once when I was going into kidney failure due to an infection and again when my body was going into shock due to dehydration and malnourishment due to GI issues - and I can not stress how much it saved my life. It's hard to even put it into words. It's not like a panic attack, or anxiety. It is a horrific gut turning feeling of absolute dread.

Especially if you have anxiety you'll know the difference honestly. It's so much worse. It's every cell in your body and your brain screaming that there's something horribly wrong in a way you've never felt. It's your brain screaming out that you are going to die in a way no panic attack has ever done before.

I can not stress how important it is to get yourself to the ER if you feel this way. Especially if your having other physical symptoms.

naamahdarling

This is amazing and incredibly helpful, oh my god. Thank you.

vmohlere

Seconding the above : I was going into shock from internal bleeding, and that sense of “something is gravely wrong” was entirely different from my day-to-day whirlwind of anxiety.

For me, it was very quiet. For me, there was a deep sense that I could just lie down on the floor and not have to ever get up again, no effort required.

That combined wrongness/relief was so weird and so unsettling that I drove myself to the ER.

The “impending” part is really key to that symptom, I think, based on my experience. It’s not the existential dread of late-stage capitalism grinding the world into nurdles. It’s a ghost crow on your shoulder whispering “it’s here, it’s now.”

thebibliosphere

Impending doom is also a feature of anaphylaxis, something I’m intimately familiar with as someone with mast cell dysfunction.

For me, its the overwhelming, near calm certainty of doom that distinguishes it from the jittery panic of “but something could go wrong.”

There’s no “what if?” There’s no room to question it. It just IS. And it’s very different from the “calm” of disassociation too. I’m not disassociated from myself when it happens. I’m probably actually the most present ever.

I’ve turned to doctors and told them calmly and with utter certainty “I am going to die” and the reaction that calm certainty gets is immediate intervention because doctors also recognize that stillness as the body not bothering to waste any time on fight or flight and just going straight to “death is imminent due to some internal failing, act accordingly.”

jame7t

funniest thing about the “reddit migration” is that I haven’t seen a single post shitting on anyone coming from Reddit. when twitter started bleeding users everyone was firing rent-lowering posts but with redditors skittering about we’ve left the doors open and put out food bowls

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Tags were too good to ignore.

lunanitic-moon

jame7t

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Tags were too good to ignore.

lunanitic-moon

pieandhotdogs

Is it wrong that I’m cool with “sex” being removed from the pride flag? They should bring back “magic” though.

Personally I think you’re wrong and an idiot but that’s just my opinion.

pieandhotdogs

Fyi this isn’t a dig at people who are asexual or sex-repulsed. Gay sex was literally a criminal act in the parts of the United States Texas until 2003. A healthy relationship to both sex and your body is a major component of the human experience, but especially LGBTQ+ people. Yes this includes people who have a healthy understanding of their boundaries with regards to sex. To try and divorce the fight for LGBTQ+ rights from sexuality is both dangerous and ahistorical.

elfwreck

The “sex” stripe isn’t “have sex.” Mainstream society has no problem with people having sex. We don’t need a flag to declare our right to have sex.

The stripe means “have the sex you want to have, with the people you want to have sex with.”

And that includes “no sex, with no people.”

(For anyone who didn’t know: the pink (sex) and turquoise (magic & art) were removed because it was hard to source those colors for flags, not because of any controversy over their meanings.)

jules-hoard-of-stuff-deactivate

PSA for Across the Spiderverse:

Do NOT see the new Spiderverse movie if you have any form of epileptic condition or conditions affected by bright lights and rapidly changing colors.

I will not be spoiling the plot or anything happening in it, but it is important that people know, because ohhh my god the AMOUNT of flashing lights and rapidly changing colors from beginning to end was so rampant that even I, a non-epileptic autistic person, got a severe headache and wild overstimulation. They do not give a warning in theaters at all that this movie is NOT epileptic friendly from the literal beginning with the beginning credits - which is so, so sad!

This is a beautifully made film, it's wonderful, it's amazing, but unfortunately, it's not a good time for anyone super affected by bright flashing lights in rapid succession, especially those seizure prone.

I wanted to put this out there BECAUSE there are no theater warnings. Idk if anyone else has put it out there, but it is SUPER IMPORTANT!!!

I wish you all a lovely day and hope they eventually have a remaster that will be much more friendly to epileptic and other people affected by bright, flashing lights.

haikyuupaladin

[plaintext: Do NOT see the new Spiderverse movie if you have any form of epileptic condition or conditions affected by bright lights and rapidly changing colors. /end plaintext]

disabled-dyke

reminder this pride month that disabled people in the US on SSI and SSDI do not have the same marriage equality as people not on SSI and SSDI. its called the marriage penalty.

by getting married, a disabled person can lose their income, benefits, and health insurance.

if a disabled person marries an able bodied person, and combined their assets are $3000 or over they will lose all benefits, including medicaid (health insurance).

if a disabled person marries a disabled person, their assistance is lowered 25%.

we don’t have marriage equality until all disabled marriages are equal.

sources x x x x

orionsangel86

There is a phenomenon happening on Tumblr right now which may be a product of the Twitter exodus or maybe its just modern fandom mentality vehemently rejecting the old, but you guys have GOT to stop being so damn MEAN about fandom.

There are posts circulating on Tumblr right now hating on so many aspects of fandom. Yeah we all know the incorrect quotes format can be cringe and most of the time its the same quotes used for every fandom ever reducing the characters to stereotypes. Yes we know most fandoms scramble to ship the two basic white guys over all the other characters. Yes we know your blorbo probably Does Not Fucking Say That. Yes we know A/B/O is weird AF (especially now its breached containment and found its way into mainstream hetero erotica). Yes we know SuperWhoLock was ridiculous and attempts to make modern shows into a new SuperWhoLock have got old fast.

But do you have to constantly drag these things all the time? Why is it suddenly cool and popular to ridicule and criticise and hate on peoples fun?

Let people be cringe

Let people play in the fandom sandbox

Let people have their fun

Not everything has to be an intellectual critique and it doesn't make you a better person to constantly shit on fandom ON THE FANDOM WEBSITE

Fandoms can be problematic, toxic, and infuriating at times. But all the negativity isn't making things better. Yeah okay some aspects of fandom can be annoying, but must we have so many call out posts go viral on here specifically for hating on parts of fandom culture? Yet people wonder why fandom creators are quitting and there isnt as much art and interaction on here as there used to be.

If you see another negative post shitting on aspects of fandom cross your dash, maybe think before you reblog it. Maybe ask yourself if that post may be hurtful to a mutual? Perhaps youve got a mutual who writers A/B/O or CharacterxReader fanfiction who doesnt wanna see your reblog of the callout post stating reader×character fanfic is gross, or perhaps your mutual creates fun text posts applying quotes to their fave characters and youve just reblogged a 90k+ note post calling them cringy and overdone.

Just THINK please. Its not necessary. We've got to be KINDER to each other. Please don't let this place become like Twitter. Twitter was a toxic cesspool where no one had anything worthwhile to add to the discussion, no one created, everyone was just screaming angry rants into the void. Dont let tumblr become like that, because it will be the death of this place. And where will you go to find fanart and gifsets of your blorbos then?

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